The Odyssey Names

Achaeans

another name for the Greek warriors

Actoris

Penelope’s slave - seen bed

Aeaea

Circe home island

Aeolus

Greek god of wind

Agamemnon

Greek king who rules all of the other Greek kings

Alcinous

king of Phaeacia who gets Odysseus home to Ithaca

Amphinomus

suitor who Telemachus kills

Antinous

most obnoxious suitor

Argos

Odysseys dog

Athena

Greek goddess of wisdom and combat

Calypso

greek goddess who keeps Odysseus captive for years

Charybdis

whirlpool monster

Cicones

tribe of men who Odysseus raids but leave his ship with 6 empty benches

Circe

Greek goddess who changed Odysseus men into swine

Cronus

Titan who is Zeus father

Cyclops

one eyed giant monster

Dulichium

surrounded island of ithaca

Eumaeus

shepherd who helped odysseus best the suitors

Epithets

Antinous father

Eurylochus

soldier of odysseus

Eurymachus

suitors who bribe odysseus not to kill

Eurynome

housekeeper

Furies

greek god in charge of enacting revenge

Helios

god of sun

Hephaestus

god of blacksmiths

Hermes

god - messenger

Ithaca

home island of odysseus

Laertes

odysseus father

Lampetia

sea nymph who snitches to Helios about his dead cattle

Medon

crier of ithaca - suitor

Odysseus

king of ithaca - trojan horse

Ogygia

home island of Calypso

Penelope

Odysseus wife

Perimedes

greek warrior who ties Odysseus to mast ship

Phaeacia

land of King Alcinous where Odysseus tells his tale

Polyphemus

Cyclops that odysseus blinds

Poseidon

greek god of the sea

Same

a surrounding island of ithaca

Scylla

monster with six heads

Telemachus

son of Odysseus and Penelope

Tiresius

blind prophet who helped odysseus get home

troy

greeks won war by hiding in horse

Zacynthus

surrounded island of ithaca

Zeus

king of greek gods